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...recall the infamous Moscow show trials of the 1930s. In those well-staged mockeries of justice - which the naive West bought lock, stock, and barrel - Stalin had his key political enemies legally lynched. Former premiers, members of the ruling Politburo and top military commanders were shot as traitors, saboteurs or foreign spies. Almost all of them were innocent of the crimes of which they had been accused, and almost all were posthumously exonerated...
...claimed millions of lives. But accusing them of the real crimes they had committed was tantamount to self-accusation on the part of the party and the Soviet state they had so faithfully served. They were executed on the grounds of political expediency rather than on those of justice. Stalin also used their demise as an excuse for further executions, purges and repressions that lasted as long as he lived...
...time of the 1930s show trials it was too late for the Russians to stop Stalin. But it was not too late for the West to see through Stalin's falsehoods. The West chose not to. Respected intellectuals from George Bernard Shaw to Lion Feuchtwanger returned from Moscow with soothing tales of Stalin justice in the workers' paradise. Thus the U.S.S.R. kept rolling along its road to hell. Now, Russia risks sliding the same way once again. Maybe it is too late for the exhausted and bewildered nation to halt the slide. Arresting Gusinsky is easier. But should Spain extradite...
...EMERSON QUARTET Shostakovich String Quartets (DGG). Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...
...EMERSON QUARTET, SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS: Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...